Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
I'm very pessimistic.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
Reinforcement is being right.
The environment shapes people's actions.
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
